TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree With Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Will master the basic statistical methods listed in the course content.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
COURSE DEFINITION	History of statistics. Way of thinking of displaying and analyzing statistical data. Methods in descriptive statistics. Using computers in statistics, presentation and usage of mostly used softwares for statistics. Basic probability, random variables, probability distributions and basic properties. Finite sample spaces and counting methods. Independent events, conditional probability. Expected value and variance, covariance and correlation. Basic discrete and continuous distributions.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Sampling Distribution 2nd Week Estimation of Population Mean and Population Binomial Proportion and related Tests of Hypotheses 3rd Week Estimation of the Difference Between Two Population Means and of the Difference Between Two Population Binomial Proportions and related Tests of Hypotheses 4th Week Estimation and Tests of Hypotheses Related to variances 5th Week Test for Goodness of Fit and Independence 6th Week Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiment 7th Week Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiment 8th Week MIDTERM 9th Week Simple and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis and Model Building 10th Week Simple and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis and Model Building 11th Week Index Number; Forecasting 12th Week Non-Parametric Statistical Methods 13th Week Non-Parametric Statistical Methods 14th Week Statistical Quality Control
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Statistics for Business and Economics, Anderson, D.R., Sweeney, D.J., and Williams, T.A., 7th Edition, International Thomson Publishing, 1998. Applied Statistics, Neter J., Wasserman, W., Whitmore, G.A., 4th. Edition, Allan and Bacon, 1993.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Questions/Answers,Problem Solving,Other
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Assignment 1 10 Project 1 10 Total(%) 50 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No